A vitriolic relationship with immediate consequences. Following the publication of a report by the General Inspectorate of Administration (IGA), concerning the subsidy paid to one of the associations benefiting from the Marianne Fund by the CIPDR (Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and radicalization), Christian Gravel, prefect in charge of the said committee, "wished to submit his resignation, which was accepted", said the Ministry of the Interior in a press release on Tuesday. Christian Gravel was the secretary general of this fund management committee, based at the Ministry of the Interior.
"The CIPDR General Secretariat has not taken the necessary steps to properly monitor the execution of the grant paid to the USEPPM", the main beneficiary association of the fund, denounces the IGA report published by Place Beauvau .
Initially endowed with 2.5 million euros, the Marianne fund, launched on April 20, 2021 by Marlène Schiappa after the shock caused by the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty, aimed to finance associations with speeches promoting the values of Republic to bring, especially on social networks, the contradiction to radical Islam.
The report also points out that CIPDR's "call for projects" to select initiatives "has not been transparent or fair".
He still regrets that "the use made of the grant received by the USEPPM [which was initially to receive around 355,000 euros, editor's note] was not in accordance with the objectives set in the agreement" between it and the CIPDR. And that "part of the grant was not spent in accordance with the agreement".
The mission "recommends" that "the CIPDR request the USEPPM to reimburse almost half of the grant paid". All of the IGA's recommendations "will be implemented," says Beauvau. According to the ministry, another IGA report on all 17 associations benefiting from the fund will be submitted at the end of June.
